Grousing about news stories written on the back of ads.
"I have always been firmly persuaded," wrote Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "that our newspapers cannot be edited in the interests of the general public, from the counting room."That is correct, they can only be edited to interest the public, not in the public interest - which is an altogether different thing.Increasingly, the slow decline of American media is proving him right.No, the decline of newspapers proves that technology has subverted the newspapers' business model. Since newspapers were never edited in the public interest in the first place, the financial failure of Associated Press Journalism says nothing about that.